Maeshowe

Quality:

Maes Howe - Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. Article “Maeshowe” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 19.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Maeshowe”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 509 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 58 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 974 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2397 in August 2006
• Global: #151 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #6710 in July 2008
• Global: #254741 in August 2014

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Maeshowe		69.536
2	Slovenian (sl) Maeshowe		47.116
3	Swedish (sv) Maeshowe		38.5876
4	Simple English (simple) Maeshowe		34.9194
5	Ukrainian (uk) Мейсхау		32.5083
6	German (de) Maes Howe		22.2672
7	Basque (eu) Maeshowe		19.9727
8	Norwegian (no) Maeshowe		19.4772
9	Dutch (nl) Maes Howe		18.9131
10	Finnish (fi) Maeshowe		17.7517

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Maeshowe		624 968
2	German (de) Maes Howe		48 646
3	Russian (ru) Мейсхау		36 254
4	Spanish (es) Maeshowe		28 434
5	Japanese (ja) メイズハウ		27 661
6	Dutch (nl) Maes Howe		25 828
7	Polish (pl) Maes Howe		24 558
8	Italian (it) Maeshowe		24 358
9	French (fr) Maeshowe		22 580
10	Swedish (sv) Maeshowe		13 551

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Maeshowe		4 129
2	Simple English (simple) Maeshowe		353
3	German (de) Maes Howe		183
4	Dutch (nl) Maes Howe		97
5	Russian (ru) Мейсхау		89
6	French (fr) Maeshowe		80
7	Spanish (es) Maeshowe		74
8	Italian (it) Maeshowe		62
9	Chinese (zh) 梅肖韦古墓		55
10	Japanese (ja) メイズハウ		46

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Maeshowe		152
2	German (de) Maes Howe		55
3	French (fr) Maeshowe		44
4	Greek (el) Τύμβος Μέισοου		31
5	Norwegian (no) Maeshowe		31
6	Italian (it) Maeshowe		29
7	Hebrew (he) מיס האו		28
8	Dutch (nl) Maes Howe		24
9	Russian (ru) Мейсхау		17
10	Japanese (ja) メイズハウ		16

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Maeshowe		0
2	Danish (da) Maeshowe		0
3	German (de) Maes Howe		0
4	Greek (el) Τύμβος Μέισοου		0
5	English (en) Maeshowe		0
6	Spanish (es) Maeshowe		0
7	Basque (eu) Maeshowe		0
8	Persian (fa) میزهو		0
9	Finnish (fi) Maeshowe		0
10	French (fr) Maeshowe		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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